So that started tonight. Do I need to have seen the first two seasons, or is this new season made with the fact in mind that there may be some new viewers who have never seen the original run?
So that started tonight. Do I need to have seen the first two seasons, or is this new season made with the fact in mind that there may be some new viewers who have never seen the original run?
Twin Peaks is a show that you need to watch more than once to fully understand what the hell is going on in my opinion, but that's definitely not a mark against it. It's well worth watching the first two seasons more than once if you want to. But I would definitely not watch season 3 without watching seasons 1 and 2 first.
Side note: the premiere of season 3 was fucking awesome. So good to step back in to the head of a director that's truly bizarre.
Cooper's long-haired (and oddly familiar) doppelganger in "The Return" was very unsettling and creepy. It also wasn't lost on me in the diner scene with his compatriots that he was dining on creamed corn.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I thought it'd be filled with nostalgia moments. And while there are some pieces thrown here and there, it doesn't go all out.
I think newcomers would be just as confused starting with the 3rd season, than first watching the other two.
So far, loving it.
Definitely start with the first seasons guys.
Episodes 3 and 4 were pretty meh. I enjoyed 1 and 2.
I watched it back in the day when it aired and I watched the dvds to get up to speed before the Return. There are A LOT of unnecessary scenes and lot of weird shit just in general that seems to be just for sake of being weird.
Me thinks Chromie has a whole lot of splaining to do!
It's so incredibly refreshing for me to get new Lynch filmmaking (first major outing since Inland Empire ten years ago), even more so in this familiar yet expanded setting of Twin Peaks. The series is a monster and feels more like a Lynch movie / Fire walk with me. The innocence of the original TV show is gone, but I think that's okay.
My only frustration is that it is too big. With ensemble casts across three different locations there is a lot of jumping around and minimal breathing room and depth for some of the characters. I crave for more moments esp from some of the new characters. Amanda Seyfried has been amazing as Becky, and the guy who plays Richard Horne has been incredible too. I also really like Chrysta Bell as the female FBI agent. #babe
Ohh and Naomi Watts as Dougie's wife and Laura Dern as the fabled Diane so perfect!
The slow burn over the first 14 episodes really made some of the moments in the last two episodes even more powerful and cathartic. I actually teared up during the scene between Ed and Norma, and that wouldn't have happened without the weeks (and years) of tension and longing building up to it.
Same with Cooper's return.
Well, having watched S3 in its entirety, I can only say that it's... different. There's an abyss between it and pretty much anything else currently or recently on the (western) market. If you've watched something like (e.g.) Westworld S1 and you've thought that it was a brilliant "mind fuck" then you're in for a rude awakening.
It's niche, to the point of being experimental art. It will make you feel stupid. It will make you feel obtuse. It will challenge you in ways that defy logic and reason. It will not hold your hand and it will not sugarcoat anything (the season finale, S3E18, is a stark reminder of the latter). It's awesome and I love it.
It has blown my mind, really. There's a huge WTF roaring inside my mind, and I remember vividly that I experienced the same way back in the day, having watched S2. Good stuff.
I'm 9 episodes in and this is the greatest mindfuck my brain has ever received so far. That episode 8, I don't even know anymore.